Jane Austen Sense And Sesibility Character Analysis

Although the readers of Jane Austen’s novels do not know Jane’s personality exactly, we can get to know her through the heroines in her novels. Strong and beautiful inside and out, Austen’s main characters of her stories always embody certain admirable traits. From their personalities, one can imagine that Jane Austen possessed a similar character. More specific characteristics of these women include a balance of sense and sensibility and an appreciation of Eros over Venus, in terms of love and marriage. She is generally ahead of the times in promoting feminist ideas and values and possesses a high intellect. Despite all of Austen’s heroines embodying a few of these traits, each one lacks some qualities; however, Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice seems to possess all of the characteristics of a true Jane Austen heroine. The first qualities of Austen’s heroines are shown in the title of one of her first novels, Sense and Sensibility. Through reading and analyzing the characters of this novel, one can see how a balance of the two traits are necessary in Austen’s heroines. …show more content…
Emma perhaps shows this the most, especially through her views of marriage. However, we can also see this in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility through her character, Elinor Dashwood, in Pride and Prejudice with the character Elizabeth Bennet, and in Persuasion, through Anne Elliot. All three of these women are fantastically intelligent and some enjoy spending much of their time reading books and poetry. In Jane Austen’s time period, a woman going to school or educating themselves was not very common at all. It was a man’s job to do these things, as he would be the one to find work and take care of the money, house, inheritance, etc. Austen shows through her novels that it is more than possible for a woman to do these things, and they are true qualities of her